US Patent Issued to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey on Sept. 23 for "Antimicrobial composition for inhibiting microbial organisms in allograft and the method thereof" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,978, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.).

"Antimicrobial composition for inhibiting microbial organisms in allograft and the method thereof" was invented by Joseph Benevenia (Montclair, N.J.), Sheldon S. Lin (Chatham, N.J.) and Michael J. Vives (Newark, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for producing allograft tissue by applying an antimicrobial solution to allograft tissue. The antimicrobial solution exhibits antimicrobial activity to make allograft resistant to microbial organisms, such as bacterium. Surface-modified tissue grafts prepared by these methods...